I think the Marleygeddon should be referred to with a certain sense of reverence and mystery. Sort of like “The Noodle Incident”.
Hey, maybe we could call it “Marley’s Noodle”?
Meanwhile Moderator Hal Briston is saying, “Sure, ban the entire membership and a couple years later nobody remembers you did it. But leave your computer logged on at work just once and you’re marked forever.”
When I see Hal post, I still hear a baa baaaa baa in the background.
As tired as I am of everything using this, it could always be Marleygate.
Aw c’mon you know who Jerry is. Remember all the trouble this board was having several months ago, with pages and pages of complaints in ATMB about board performance? And then how they took the whole board down (piecewise) for several days while the entire body of SDMB posts was laboriously re-typed by hand to re-build the board?
That was Jerry doing all that.
I remember one day when everyone was banned, but I don’t think I knew Marley was the culprit.
When I saw this thread I thought it was going to be about the period when Ed Zotti decided to actively participate on boards, with one finger on the ban button. Ed doesn’t take the same lip the mods do.
One time, in banned camp…
Been there, did that! :smack:
I was the foreman on a remodel of a Safeway grocery store in Lake Charles, La. back in the early 80’s. It was a 100% remodel that was done while the store was still in operation. Everything was brand new… including the ginormous switch panel that provided power to the entire store. There was a small button with a little orange light next to it, the button said ‘Test’. The little light wasn’t lit up so I assumed that the button tested the light.
It tested the light alright… meaning that when I pushed the button, the main breaker went CLUNK! and the ENTIRE store suddenly went dark! :eek:
Well, not the entire store…
The little light, lit up. 
Close…what I was going to say was:
Oh, I don’t think he much about it. The SDMB members are pretty quick to let things go.
Ewe know it!
The survivors call it Judgment Day.
See, that’s the fine line between deep shit and sheep dip.
ETA:
Well played, Becky. Well played. --Golf Clap–
All I remember is **Marley **asking me to look at some weird flashlight thing…
So The Banning was a cover for something else.
No, we call it, “I Love it when a Plan Comes Together.”
There’s that, and there’s this, also from the same day: I’m Banned! Banned I tell you!, which has more content of the type I’m looking for in OP.
FTR, it appears Musicat was first with “banned name.”
A document that is hard to find and I’d like to read: a sticky that came and went acknowledging that something a little different had occurred recently. Apparently one (two?) posters thought it was not sufficiently grovelacious enough, and Marley was impugned.
Also, it shows clearly yet again why TubaDiva should be sent chocolate and Scotch, or at least worshipped every now and then.
And that this “Jerry” person is connected with the CIA, the Illuminati, and dollars-to-donuts is connected with the Rothschilds.
I was so much younger when it happened. It was a more innocent time, and we’ve lost a lot of that innocence since.
Kind of like in that Rob Reiner classic, " Ban By Me " ?
I’m thinking more of a Spinal Tap drummer. You’ve never heard of spontaneous total message board bannation?